Re: [xsl] Schema-aware pretty-printing

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you do an identity transform in Saxon, with schema-validated input 
and indented output, then it will do indentation of elements with 
element-only content, and no indentation of elements with mixed content. 
I think. But I might think wrong, because I'm on vacation.

Michael Kay
Saxonica


On 22/12/2011 02:48, Murray McDonald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a some very large XML source files.  Each is are currently formatted
> as one long string (ie no line breaks).
>
> I need to add some processing instructions at various points in the file but
> I don't want to introduce any significant whitespace in the process of doing
> so.
>
> I have XMLSpy but it does not seem to be capable of doing a schema-aware
> "pretty-print".
>
> A web search seems to indicate that OXygen is capable of doing an
> intelligent pretty-print (the information I found is in the context of XHTML
> but I assume it's more generalized than that??), however, I can't really
> justify buying it just for that.
>
> If needs be, I can write an XSLT to parse a DTD, classify each element as
> "inline", "mixed", "block" or "empty" and then do an identity transform
> against my XML source files inserting line-breaks and leading tabbing as
> required.
>
> I am wondering if anyone else has any other suggestions for me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Murray